Now the working mum says she is getting hate mail online – with users telling her to “drink bleach” and threatening to slash her tyres.

Carla, who lives in Kettering, Northamptonshire, said: “I’m getting a lot of hate mail but no one really knows what happened. Obviously what I did was wrong. From five to zero seconds I’ve given him a reaction. More fool me.

“I didn’t expect anything like this to happen. It’s getting out of control.